[Evolution and the Bible are not incompatible]
Only if one doesn’t believe that the Bible tells the real truth.
Really? Can you point me to chapter and verse where the Bible says that evolution is impossible. No, I didn't think you could.
We have irrefutable proof that evolution is a fact. Have you not read of super bacteria which have developed resistance to antibiotics? That is evolution. There is no denying it. It is an event that has been observed in our lifetimes.
Do you not think that God could have created evolution as a natural means of developing life? God created gravity as a natural means of keeping people from floating off the earth, yet the Bible does not go into the intricacies of how gravity works. Does that mean that are billions of angels floating above us holding us down? Of course not. Similarly, the only thing that God told us is the who -- it was God who created life. He did not say how. We are not here by chance.
I have problems with the grand theory of evolution. But my problems are scientific, not religious. I do believe that God created everything "after its own kind." But what does "after its own kind" mean? Does that mean that he separately created horses and cows and monkeys? Or does he mean that he created mammals in general and then used a physical law that he created -- evolution -- to divide them into separate species? I don't know and neither do you. The Bible is totally moot on the point.
If we were shown absolute, undeniable proof that everything on earth evolved from a single-celled organism, it would not shake my faith one bit. It might shatter yours though because you're basing at least some of your faith on something that is not in God's word.
You're reading your own personal opinion into the Bible. That's not a good idea because you may be setting yourself up for a fall.
Mike, you wrote:
We have irrefutable proof that evolution is a fact. Have you not read of super bacteria which have developed resistance to antibiotics? That is evolution. There is no denying it. It is an event that has been observed in our lifetimes
That is not evolution. That is adaptation within a species. Evolution encompasses a much broader concept or theory. Adaptation within a species, as you are probably well aware, is a fact and very well documented. I will have to disagree with you that evolution is a fact though.
We have irrefutable proof that evolution is a fact. Have you not read of super bacteria which have developed resistance to antibiotics? That is evolution. There is no denying it. It is an event that has been observed in our lifetimes.
Incredible that the scientific community didn’t get your memo!
The responsible group of Georgia parents concerned about evolution being taught as fact and not theory have been slandered and ridiculed when they dared place stickers on science textbooks reminding students evolution is theory and NOT fact; and here’s proof positive that godless liberals and their ilk need to be reigned in, as if we somehow needed more proof.
BTW, adaptation is not the same thing as evolution. Implying such is frankly every bit as desperate as suing people not over science but because of their vast liberal insecurities and multiple hang-ups with God to remove stickers to prevent them from telling children the truth.
Also, you apparently didn’t get the memo too that evolution isn’t an event but a process.
You are looking at it backwards. The antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria were already there with the other strains, when those other strains are killed off by the antibiotic, the resistant strains become visible.
God restricted the propagation of species to its own kind. However, the Bible doesn't so much say that evolution (depending on how you define it) can't occur (in so many words) as much as it didn't occur.
The Genesis account pretty much states that the different groupings and kinds were created in different creation events, some on different days.
We have irrefutable proof that evolution is a fact. Have you not read of super bacteria which have developed resistance to antibiotics? That is evolution. There is no denying it.
According to other evos, nothing in science is ever proved, FWIW.
Evolution is not a fact. Variation within species has been, and continues to be, observed. Bacteria are still bacteria no matter what they are resistant to.
Presuming that speciation, or macro evolution occurs just because variation within species is observed is only that, a presumption. Nobody has ever seen the major species to species changes that evolutionists claim has happened that resulted in the variety of life we see today. That is only deduced from the fossil record. That in no way establishes it as a *fact*.
I certainly believe that God allowed for wide variation within the kinds He created along with a greater variety of the number of kinds themselves. Many have gone extinct, that is true. However, between those two factors, if someone is going to misinterpret the fossil evidence to read more into it than what is there, that is nothing that I can help.